“Race Freaks” on Fox Sports Net will air the 2011 STA-BIL Keeps Gash Fresh Finals on the following days and times. Please check local listings and regional network websites for verification, as schedule is subject to change without notice.

Find Your Fox Sports Net Local Affiliate

• Fox Sports Net
• MSG, Madison Square Garden Network
• Root Sports (Northwest, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain)
• Comcast Sportsnet Chicago

RACE FREAKS – Show #11 – AP & FX Class Racing

• FOX SPORTS ARIZONA: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Pacific
• FOX SPORTS DETROIT: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS FLORIDA: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS MIDWEST: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Central
• MSG PLUS: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 5:00 PM Eastern
• MSG PLUS: Sunday, 10/23/2011 at 12:30 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS NORTH: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Central
• FOX SPORTS WISCONSIN: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Central
• ROOT SPORTS (Northwest Region): Friday, 10/21/2011 at 12:00 PM Pacific
• FOX SPORTS OHIO: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• ROOT SPORTS (Pittsburgh Region): Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• ROOT SPORTS (Rocky Mountain Region): Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Mountain
• FOX SPORTS SOUTH: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS SOUTHWEST: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 2:00 PM Central
• FOX SPORTS HOUSTON: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 2:00 PM Central
• FOX SPORTS WEST: Thursday, 10/20/2011 at 3:00 PM Pacific
• COMCAST CHICAGO: Sunday,  10/23/2011 at 2:00 PM Central
• COMCAST CHICAGO: Tuesday, 10/25/2011 at 1:00 PM Central

RACE FREAKS – Show #12 – CP & BP Class Racing

• FOX SPORTS ARIZONA: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Pacific
• FOX SPORTS DETROIT: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS FLORIDA: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS MIDWEST: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Central
• FOX SPORTS NORTH: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Central
• FOX SPORTS WISCONSIN: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Central
• ROOT SPORTS (Northwest Region): Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Pacific
• FOX SPORTS OHIO: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• ROOT SPORTS (Pittsburgh Region): Thursday,10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• ROOT SPORTS (Rocky Mountain Region): Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Mountain
• FOX SPORTS SOUTH: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Eastern
• FOX SPORTS SOUTHWEST: Friday, 10/28/2011 at 4:00 PM Central
• FOX SPORTS HOUSTON (Texas): Friday, 10/28/2011 at 11:00 AM Central
• FOX SPORTS WEST: Thursday, 10/27/2011 at 3:00 PM Pacific

RACE FREAKS – Show #13 – IMOW, JP and SP Class Racing

Dates announced soon!

Bobby talks about the U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association, STA-BIL Fuel Stabilizer, STA-BIL Ethanol Treatment and how he came to hold the World Land Speed Record!

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Pro Tour FMX is a freestyle motocross team headed up by two former Arizona and California State MX champions, D.J. Umphres and Brent Denton. The team specializes in providing an up-close and personal Xgames experience involving seat grabs, holy grabs, rock solids, and the back flip. Each rider with over 15 years experience brings a very healthy and maintained arsenal of freestyle motocross tricks to amaze and surprise every spectator.

Location: Laughlin Events Park
Date: 04/09/2011
Times: 1:30 pm; gates open 11:30 am
Cost: $10 adults; $5 ages under 12

Along with Free Style Motocross X Games, there are truck pulls, lawn mower racing action from the Arizona Lawn Mower Racing Association, t-shirt throwing and a breath-catching intermission presented by Laughlin Tourism Commission and Honeycutt Rodeo Inc.

The whole family can come and experience the fun and excitement of this 90 minute, set on the edge of your seat thrill show!

It doesn’t matter if you’re new to the sport or a veteran mower racer, we want to hear from you!

TO SUBMIT:

Send us an email. Tell us about yourself, how long have you been racing? How did you discover the sport? What are your goals for the 2011 season? What do you when you’re not racing? What are your other hobbies? What’s your occupation? Why should you be a part of this documentary? What makes you unique compared to others?

Email Bruce Kaufman at bruce@letsmow.com. Please send a photo of yourself and your lawnmower if possible. Also include your phone number and the best time to reach you.

This post, from Dean Schopf, Jr. Events Coordinator of the Pennsylvania Lawn Mower Racing Association (PALMRA) is a build clinic book made up of information from all over the web, as well as our racers in Pennsylvania.

We suggest that every new member who is building their first racing lawn mower download a copy! Dean Jr. had this to say:

All of the mowchines that race under the PALMRA name are built to the USLMRA rule book, so start by downloading that. After reading the rule book, you will be scratching your head trying to make sense of it all – most people building their own mower for the first time have no idea of how to set up the front axle or how to install a jackshaft. That’s why we created the PALMRA build clinic book!

The clinic book contains everything from the first rule of lawn mower racing, to where to locate those hard-to-find parts… and it is broken down into chapters such as ‘Brakes’, ‘Steering’, and ‘Transmissions’ for easy reference. We suggest that every new racer who is building his or her first racing mower download a copy.

Also provided in the Guide Book are the PALMRA race day procedures on registration, tech inspection, the drivers meeting, and on track safety. Lastly, the guide book contains contact information for myself and Tom Lavalette!

Thanks, Dean Jr.! You can download the PALMRA Build Clinic Book below:

Download The PALMRA Build Clinic Book

Looking for more “Tech and Driving Advice” from some of our fastest drivers and most knowledgeable gear heads? Have a rule, tech, or driving related question you’d like answered by the USLMRA’s experts? Check out the Tech Updates page!

Bobby Cleveland, Gold Eagle Co.’s Engine AnswerMan and United States Lawn Mower Racing Association racer, discusses STA-BIL For Diesel at the annual Labor Day Weekend STA-BIL Keeps Gas Fresh Finals and U.S. Open event in Delaware, Ohio.

Each year, Bobby tours the country promoting Gold Eagle Products as the Engine AnswerMan. Check out his blog!

Getaway cars are supposed to be fast. And they’re supposed to be cars.

Those two facts apparently eluded a Florida man, who police say attempted to evade arrest by riding a slow-moving lawn mower on Wednesday.

The man didn’t make it far, and obviously no story on lawn mower speed would be complete without the informed perspective of our own Engine Answerman Bobby Cleveland:

Cleveland told AOL News that there are few escape vehicles slower than a store-bought mower.

“You could get it to about 7 or 8 miles per hour — max,” said Cleveland, who last week shattered existing speed records when his souped-up mower reached 96.529 mph on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.

But getting a lawn mower to that kind of speed takes a great deal of work on the engine and transmission, not to mention a great deal of skill behind the wheel.

Read the whole story here.

In May, British driver Don Wales (on behalf on Project Runningblade) took the 2006 title by going 87.833 mph at the Pendine Sands in Wales, UK – beating Cleveland’s original record of 80.792 mph. Cleveland was in attendance to see his record broken, and to cheer on his British counterpart.

It took two days and five runs, but Cleveland was able to ‘smash’ the record Wales set just a few months ago. Unlike in 2006, Cleveland had his own personal pit crew this time around – a few who are members of the United States Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA). Cleveland even cut some grass after the final run, to prove to any doubters that it’s a ‘real’ lawnmower.

“I’ve been waiting four years for this,” said Cleveland. “That’s why I was excited about Project Runningblade’s attempt – it gave me an excuse to come back to the Salt Flats. I was hoping we would get my machine up to 100mph, or even 104, but 96 mph is still a record and pretty fast on a lawnmower – it scared me so good! I couldn’t have done it without my team.”

Cleveland’s Crew consisted of USLMRA Vice President Kerry Evans, USLMRA Hall of Fame Driver Chuck Miller, and 2008 USLMRA Driver of the Year Pat “Rocket Man” Sullivan.

You can find Bobby on Twitter and Facebook!

Well, Bobby has made some modifications to the 104+ brand mower, and will be heading back to the Bonneville Salt Flats the weekend of September 24-26 to reclaim what’s his. His goal is to go 100 mph (or maybe 104?). Check out the video:

Head over to WillBobbyGo100.com to learn much MOW about this exciting project!

The winner of the poll will receive a prize package including a care package with over $100 worth of Gold Eagle Co. products, an award certificate, plaque, Custom Pit Crew Shirt and more at the races during the 2010 STA-BIL Nationals Weekend along with an extra trophy to take home!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW!

Visitors are allowed to vote on the poll once per day, so come back and vote often and encourage your friends, family & club members to go online and vote for you as well!

Every month, four different rides get featured. Every featured ride receives a car care package with over $100 in Gold Eagle products, an award to hang in their garage and of course bragging rights! Featured rides also get entered into a monthly poll to receive a custom Cool Rides Online pit crew shirt that itself is valued at $100.

This August we will run a poll on the STA-BIL site with only USLMRA entries to select the STA-BIL featured ride for September. The winner of the poll will receive his prize at the races during the 2010 STA-BIL Nationals Weekend along with an extra trophy and plaque.

Good luck!

Bruce Kaufman
USLMRA President

The Performance Mowersports Expo will bring together manufacturers, suppliers, builders and related product and service providers in the rapidly expanding lawn mower racing industry.

Engines, engine components, chassis, performance products, race equipment and related services will be featured with company representatives on site to discuss, sell to and educate the lawn mower racing community and the public.

“The first two Performance Mowersports Expos were highly successful and the USLMRA is pleased to continue to take the lead in presenting the first ever lawn mower racing industry expo,” noted USLMRA Founder and President Bruce Kaufman. “With the inaugural U.S. Open race scheduled during Nationals Weekend, we expect many new exhibitors from across the lawn mower racing world. The U.S. Open will attract racers and vendors from various sanctioning bodies, independent groups and clubs from across the U.S. and Canada and the PME will be the perfect venue to meet the folks servicing the lawn mower racing community. The PME will give vendors an opportunity to share their products, services and knowledge and receive some terrific exposure and possibly some TV time. Hosting the 3rd Industry Expo at the 18th STA-BIL Nationals will also continue to position our annual Labor Day Weekend event as America’s premier lawn mower racing destination for racers, families and fans.”

Expo Chairman will be Darrin “Doc” Kuhfeldt of D&B Mowersports, USLMRA/STA-BIL Series racer, USLMRA event announcer and veteran trade show expert.

Companies appearing in 2008-2009 include:

• Acme Mower Sports
• American Power Sports
• ARC Racing
• BMI Karting
• D&B Mower Sports
• Gold Eagle Co.
• G-Team Racing
• Jack’s Small Engine and Generator Service, LLC
• K&N Filters
• Manny’s Mower Sports Racing
• Mikula Motorsports
• National Karting Alliance

For more information about the 3rd Annual Performance Mowersports Expo, click here.

From It’s a real MOW-DOWN! The Sta-Bil Lawn Mower Racers delighted the crowd in their first appearance at the Fall 4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals in Indy. Power-sliding a power mower…priceless!

Find more videos like this on Truck Show Nation

USLMRA has been working with author Jeff Fisher to create a comprehensive “How To Guide” for Lawn Mower Racing. We are pleased to offer the new eBook “Green Means Go – Lawn Mower Racing Secrets.”

Miller Lawn and Power, 1299 Harding Highway East State Road 309 in Marion, Ohio will be “Mowtivation Station” as a place of honor for the Lawn Mower Racing Hall of Fame.

“I’ve seen the growth of the USLMRA since the first race in 1992, “ said Miller. “It amazes me to see how this sport has grown so fast and how it has become part of American culture. I’ve stayed competitive over the years, and although I’m getting older, I’ve still got my MOWjo.”

The Class of 2009 includes:

• The Organizing Committee of the Twelve Mile 500 in Twelve Mile, Indiana. The Twelve Mile 500 is the home of America’s oldest organized riding lawn mower race. Founded in 1963 and hosted by the Twelve Mile Lions Club, the annual mow down takes place on July 4th each year. 33 mowers run 60 laps around a 1/4 mile track covering a distance of 15 miles, a bit longer than the original distance of 48 laps – twelve miles – due to increased speed in recent years.
• Jim Gavin of Wisborough Green, West Sussex, England, Founder and General Secretary of the British Lawn Mower Racing Association (BLMRA), founded in 1973 at the Cricketers Arms in Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Gavin, an Irishman who had raced and rallied cars across the world, became disillusioned with the increasing costs of motorsport. Whilst downing their pints in the village pub, Gavin and a group of locals looked across the village green to see the green keeper mowing the cricket patch. They realized that everyone had a lawn mower in their garden shed, so a Championship was held in a local farmer’s field. About 80 competitors turned up for what turned out to be a very successful event and the formation of the BLMRA. The BLMRA still sticks to its origins as a non-profit organization (any profits are given to charities or good causes) while providing well-organized and inexpensive motor sport with a strong social atmosphere.
• “Racing Ray” Mrocks of Lake Zurich, Illinois, the first member of the USLMRA heeded the call to sod slinging glory on April 1, 1992, the birthday of national lawn mower race sanctioning in the United States. “Racing Ray” tore up the turf from 1992-2001, claiming BP Class Points Championships on his mower Sodzilla 1995-1997. “Racing Ray” served as Chief Technical Inspector, race course builder, rule maker and friend to lawn mower racers far and wide. “I like lawn mower racing because it’s fun and affordable,” said Ray in 1997. “Come to think of it, I like anything that is fun and affordable, that’s why I gave up my marriage, but I’m still racing lawn mowers.”
• Chuck Miller, of Marion, Ohio, the only USLMRA member to compete in every STA-BIL Nationals since 1992. The “Boogie Woogie Man” is a multi-year racing champion and is a Charter USLMRA Member. His record of 16 consecutive starts in the annual STA-BIL Nationals is unmatched. Miller won the 1st BP Class Championship at the 1992 STA-BIL Nationals and the Factory Experimental Championship in 1993. In 2008 he took 2nd place in the STA-BIL Challenge of Champions Race. Miller has also been involved as a race coordinator, rules consultant and Local Chapter contact.

Lawn mower racers from across America will converge in Delaware “MOWhio” during the Labor Day weekend as the United States Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA) presents the 17th Annual STA-BIL Keeps Gas Fresh Finals and Challenge of Champions. More than 100 Sod Slingers on mowers at speeds nearing 60 mph will compete on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5-6, at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, 236 Pennsylvania Ave., Delaware, OH.

Founded on April 1, 1992, the USLMRA sanctions and presents organized lawn mower racing across America including the 18-race STA-BIL National Lawn Mower Racing Series and a network of 43 Local Chapters and Affiliated Clubs hosting more than 140 sanctioned races nationwide each year. Races feature riding lawn mowers with cutting blades removed at speeds up to 60 mph. Lawn mowers race in four road course classes: Stock (8 mph), IMOW (20 mph), Prepared (50 mph) and Factory Experimental (60 mph).

For more information call (847) 272-2120. Interviews, b-roll and funny quips available upon request

Check out this review of the new Wreckreation Nation DVD on DVDTalk.com:

A salute to the “ingenious, dangerous, and dubious ways Americans kill time,” Wreckreation Nation with Dave Mordal manages not only to showcase the innumerable ways Americans build and compete (and destroy) in their spare time, but it also honors the achievements of average Americans who make “excellence” a goal even in their pastimes…and even if those pastimes seem, to the non-believer, stupid as hell.

Wreckreation Nation Season 1 is available on Amazon.

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The bullet point episode descriptions also show us as the 1st segment of the 1st episode of the 1st season! According to my mathematical calculations 1st = coolest segment!

Greetings from Mow Central-

Discovery Channel has just announced new air dates for the Lawn Mower Racing episode of Wreckreation Nation – March 14 at 8 EST and March 15 at 12 AM EST.

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